About SJS

St. John’s School instills in its students intellectual enthusiasm, leadership, and an appreciation of discovery. We encourage students to focus on achievement with a willingness to explore varied paths to reach their goals. Because the SJS community revels in scholarly, athletic, and artistic adventure, day-to-day life at St. John’s is filled with the joy of learning and doing, both for students and for faculty.

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Since 1946, St. John’s School has been encouraging dedicated students to study, inquire, play, and thrive. Combining accomplishments in academics, athletics, and the arts with selfless service, St. John’s students join and continue our tradition of action, distinction, and service on and off campus. Offering students a supportive environment filled with possibility and fun, we celebrate their lives of discovery, and delight in seeing their successes here in Houston and beyond.

Academics

Offering a thirteen-year sequence of college-preparatory education for its students, the St. John’s School experience focuses on developing the intellectual, ethical, social, spiritual, moral, and physical capabilities of every enrolled student.

School Life

Throughout the thirteen-year sequence, our students thrive in an environment that combines challenge with support, work with play, and individual success with the common good. We celebrate the student willing to use these special years to engage in the possibilities at St. John's and in the world beyond.

Support St. John's

In developing leaders for tomorrow, St. John’s is mindful of the fact that it exists because of the generosity of its founders and seeks to build upon that same spirit of philanthropy today. From current students, to faculty and staff, to parents and alumni, the St. John’s community instills the importance of giving back.

Purposefully set one month into the new school year, the trip serves symbolically as the end of the beginning of Middle School. Former St. John's Lower Schoolers and new students to the School are mindfully mixed together as our teachers aim to have everybody return to Houston feeling they are equally a part of the School.

For more than twenty years, home base for this 4-day, 3-night experience has been Mo Ranch in Hunt, TX. Mo's highly trained staff guides our kids through its Environmental Leadership Program. Group leaders challenge and encourage students to set personal and group goals for the various activities, and focus on helping students to communicate and cooperate. The 'challenge by choice' mentality helps students push themselves beyond what they thought they were capable of. It often lends itself to raucous and robust support of classmates and teachers alike when goals are reached, fears are faced and overcome!

Beyond the physical and mental challenges presented by the famous MO ROPES course, many 6th grade students overcome the challenges of sleeping away from home for three nights and all that this entails. Kids return to campus having not only made new friends but also having tried things they might never have thought possible. A highlight of the year for many, this trip allows the 6th grade class and its teachers to get to know one another extremely well as they launch their Middle School journey together. Hearing students share lessons learned in the post-trip assembly caps off this fun learning experience.